[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#441308: gtkpod: complains about too many open files

[Felix C. Stegerman]

Package: gtkpod
Version: 0.99.10-2
Severity: important

Whenever I've added some MP3 files to my music collection and wanted
to add them to my iPod, I did the following:

  * start gtkpod
  * choose "add dirs"
  * pick my MP3 directory
  * press OK
  * save changes
  * quit gtkpod

This has worked fine for as long as I've has my iPod [more that 2
years], but now, when gtkpod has processed roughly 700 files, it spews
out a long list of complaints that a file was correctly identified as
an MP3 file but could not be added because an error occurred: too many
files open [I meant to write it down but the last time gtkpod crashed
as well].  This makes me wonder whether gtkpod forgets to close file
descriptors or something like that.

For not I can avoid the problem by adding my MP3's one artist at a
time [< 700 files] and syncing immediately afterwards.

Also:

  * I had not used gtkpod for about a month, so I'm not sure
    since which version this occurs.
  * I noticed gtkpod now copies the MP3 files to the iPod when adding
    them, not when syncing [save changes]; either I only noticed this
    new behaviour after a while, or the problem could be related to
    this change.


- Felix


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (890, 'testing'), (880, 'stable'), (870, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gtkpod depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.19-3      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.18.0-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.6.1-2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.4.10-1+b2   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcurl3-gnutls            7.16.4-5      Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.1.1-3       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libflac8                   1.1.4-3+b1    Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libfontconfig1             2.4.2-1.2     generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.18.0.1-3    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.14.0-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.18.1-3+b1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgpod2                   0.5.2-4       a library to read and write songs
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.10.13-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libhal1                    0.5.9.1-4     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libid3tag0                 0.15.1b-10    ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libkrb53                   1.6.dfsg.1-7  MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.7-0.1  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.18.1-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libvorbis0a                1.2.0.dfsg-2  The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3             1.2.0.dfsg-2  The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-7     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.9-1     X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.3-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:4.0.3-2     X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     2:1.1.3-1     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.2-1     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.2.2-1     X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.3-1     X Rendering Extension client libra

gtkpod recommends no packages.

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Felix C. Stegerman <flx at obfusk.net>                  http://obfusk.net
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